Sunday 8th June 2025

Culture

‘Love in the face of hate’: A closer look at ‘Blood Wedding’

Emma Nihill Alcorta is the director of a new adaptation of the Spanish masterpiece Blood Wedding, running at the Oxford Playhouse. With flamenco rhythms and Spanish soul, our passionate ensemble...

Duplicity, infidelity and loyalty in ‘Crocodile Tears’

“An Italian summer romance that goes wrong” – this is how Crocodile Tears was...

Review: The Great Gatsby – ‘Indulge the extravaganza’

Sophia Eiden’s production of Simon Levy’s script of The Great Gatsby is an undoubted...

Barry Lyndon – Kubrick’s ultimate antifilm?

Barry Lyndon has always been dismissed within Kubrick’s filmography. While he is a filmmaker...

OxFolk Reviews: ‘When The Good Times Come Again’

Ben Ray listens to 'When The Good Times Come Again', the new album from Megson

OxFolk Reviews: ‘Ignite’

Ben Ray looks at 'Ignite', the debut album of duo Will Pound & Eddy Jay

Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Julieta’

Priya Khaira-Hanks applauds Almodóvar’s depiction of human complexity in his recent film Julieta

Review: War Dogs

Thomas Player gives credit to the secret complexity of War Dogs, but questions if it was a little bit too subtle.

Woody Allen’s Café Society: a satirical love letter to film

Ellie Siora reviews Allen's latest, and maybe last, film and its success as a social comment

Review: Treasure Neverland – Real and Imaginary Pirates

Ben Ray sets sail to find his ideal desert island book

Book review: The University of Oxford, a History

Ben Ray digs into this herculean history of the university, undertaken by Magdalen's own Professor Brockliss

Five picks for your four final days at the Fringe

Ellie Siora is here to make sure you get the most out of the scant few days left at the Fringe

Review: Foxtrot at the Edinburgh Fringe

Peter Thickett is drawn into a complex reflection on the dehumanisation of missing women at the Fringe

Jonathan Evans: the Poké-MAN

Forget the Olympics. Last week, Oxford's own Jonathan Evans competed in the World Pokemon Finals. This is his story...

Poetry: One Hundred Red Kites

In verse, Harry Smith examines memory and sensation

Review: ‘Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh’; Scottish National Gallery

Altair Brandon-Salmon is left mildly underwhelmed by the Scottish National Gallery's Impressionist exhibition

Festivals: F stands for film – Adam Green’s Aladdin at Latitude

A month in retrospect, Josh Mascord reflects on the success of screening films at culture-showcase festivals

The apex of abstraction at Tate Britain

Anietie Ekanem is impressed by the thoughtfulness of 'Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 - 1979'

Review: Circleville, Circlevalley

Ellie Siora reflects on an Edinburgh show packed full of childlike energy

Preview: Canon Warriors

Matt Roberts looks forward to hand puppets and feminism at the fringe

Thoughts on Fleabag

Natasha Burton sings the praises of new BBC3's 'Fleabag' as a simultaneously pertinent and contemporarily prevalent show.

Review: XX (kiss kiss)

Aidan Balfe is enthralled by the innovation of the algorithmic play about love

Review: Pussyfooting

Richard Birch is deeply impressed by an OUDS national tour confronting gender and its norms

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – OUDS Summer Tour

Mark Barclay loses himself in the OUDS Summer Tour production in London

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